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Thank you everyone for your input on the topic! NebWeb: I am happy I am not the only one dealing with those issues... I really see myself in your text. And about the video link, indeed, nothing special about his tone.. It sounds cheap to be honest. aaron_aardvark & NebWeb: I don't think my Marshall colours my sound, or at least not a lot. I really tried to make it as invisible as possible so that the main tone I hear would be the XT. I do have a CD-in but either there is a problem with it or it's been programmed by an lollipop. When I try to play music through it, I only hear a sort of blurry woom---woom... Imposible to hear a HH for ex. Plus, even if it worked as planned, I find it very inconvenient as there is no volume / master setting to control it. Also, no EQ. Indeed, the EQ only controls the guitar-in channel. Actually I am sort of thinking my tone is not that bad after all.. I have watched the second video and again, sounds really cheap to me. I'll try to record a short video of me playing clean / distortion, harmonics etc so you can "see" what it sounds like. But in the meantime, if you want to have an idea, you can hear it here. On the first video (Steel Panther - Asian Hooker) , I tried using a new preset, of which I am not convinced at all.. If you compare it with the other ones, it sounds less precise there is too much low-mid. I tried to adjust it but haven't found the sweet spot yet. On the second video (Steel Panther - Eyes of a Panther), I think that was my favourite preset. On the videos 3 to 15 (Van Halen - Jump to Dokken - Don't Lie to Me), it was my old preset, which I sort of liked, but again, not 100%. The other videos are irrevelant because they are either too old and the recording sucked (even more than the recent ones) or it was recorded in a recording studio, where I got a super killer sound (video 16 : David Lee Roth / Steve Vai - Ladies Night in Buffalo), which of course I can't get at home. My recording "method" is pretty simple : I start the original song (medium volume) and play over it (high volume). The video and sound are both recorded using my iphone's camera app (hahah I know...), and then, that's it. I export it as is, no editing. Feelnofrets: Yea.. I think you have a point. Maybe it's as close as it gets to a real amp. That tone is really close to what I am looking for Rhythm Lead

Hi, I am a guitar teacher and I am new on the Line 6 community. About 8 years ago, I bought a second hand pod xt live and never found a preset that I liked... I just thought "well maybe it's as good as it gets, I'll just live with it". Some time later, I download a ton of presets from the custom tone website, and only one of them was kind of ok. A couple years after that, a friend gave me his hd400 so I thought it was my opportunity to finally have a sound I like... but nope. It even sounds worse than the xt live... When I go from presets to presets, some have a super low volume, so I boost it, the next one nearly blew up my windows.. So I reduced it, etc. All the sounds have a sort of super messy distortion (not in a good way... but i a "your speaker is broken" way!), with a very "plastic-y" sound, not at all what I like. I know line 6 is know for their good sounds and all, so I wondered "why can't I get that? I must be doing something wrong". I have to say I am a bit confused with the output settings, such as: hd400: live vs studio line vs amp, gnd vs lift xt live: line vs amp studio direct vs combo front vs combo power amp vs stack front vs stack power amp ... you get the idea So, I have tried all the combinations I could imagine, and though there is an obvious sound difference, none of them is remotely close to what I am looking for. In short, I am looking for a sort of 80's heavy metal sound (iron maiden, evh, steel panther, ratt, etc), and a sort of bluesy clean one. My setup is : Charvel pro mod san dimas -> line 6 xt live or hd 400 -> Marshall mg30dfx Could anybody help me clarify what I am doing wrong? Your help will be greately appreciated. Thanks in advance.